RELS 341 Lecture 7: RELS 341 WEEK 9

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 341
• Professor: Sharday Mosurinjohn

Document Summary

Comparison of religion can be: the examination, in a uni ed work, of sources from the least two distinct religious traditions, addressing an aspect of religion common to the comparands (fredenreich 2004, 81) Some types of comparison: comparative focus on similarity, comparative focus on di erent, comparative focus on genus-species relationship, the use of comparison to refocus. Association with the colonial and orientalist enterprises of western scholarship. Biases with scholars inevitably bring to their comparisons. Failure to consider religious phenomena in their original texts. Emphasis on similarity and minimization of di erences between religious traditions. Comparison is always: x compared to y with respect to z .